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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Downgrades"”.
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Assessing Genetic Counselors' Clinical Approach and Practices Regarding Pathogenic/Likely Pathogenic Variant Downgrades
<p>Although rare, variant downgrades from a pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) variant to a variant of uncertain significance can have a significant impact on patients and their families in the clinical cancer setting. However, there is a lack of literature about how to approach these potentially …
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Three essays on the impact of information and transparency in firms
… observations of market returns around downgrades in insurer financial strength ratings (IFSR) become significantly negative, suggesting that some sophisticated investors anticipate the price reaction to downgrades which are vieas negative news. Research argues that short sellers are …
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Two essays on consumer credit as a claim on workers’ income
… employees of companies that suffer credit rating downgrades have access to 20 percent less credit and face 10 percent higher interest rates compared with similar employees of non-downgraded firms. Workers from downgraded firms are also 5 p.p. more likely to default on loans than employees from …
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The impact of a change in sovereign credit ratings on stock market volatility: A comparison of emerging and developed countries
… an effect on stock market volatility. Rating downgrades tend to increase volatility whilst upgrades tend to decrease volatility. Countries that have lower ratings, classified as emerging economies, are no less sensitive to rating changes compared to developed markets and both observe a …
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Essays in financial economics
… show that, overall, analysts appear prescient: downgrades (upgrades) are more likely when future returns are bad (good). However, the investment values of downgrades decline when analysts make their decision driven by past performance pressure.
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Eficiência dos fundos de investimento durante o cenário de crise político-econômica no Brasil entre 2012 e 2016
… on the Malmquist-DEA index suffered successive downgrades in the years after 2012, especially in 2016, which showed a worse than 25% risk-return ratio. Finally, we emphasize that the DEA approach has proved to be an important tool in the analysis of investment funds efficiency.
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Religion, cognition and author-function : Dyer, Southwell, Lodge and As You Like It.
… co-efficient in salvation. In doing so, the play downgrades the role of the intellectual faculty. The notion of author/dramatist as governing intellect is thereby brought into question. Accordingly, the thesis also traces the development of attitudes towards author-function in its study-texts, …
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The effect of regulations on insurance companies expanding to emerging markets
… such as nationalisation, sovereign rating downgrades and perceived skills gap in the market and proposed a model around these regulations.
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Essays in empirical finance
… net trade is more positive around upgrades than downgrades for all periods, and these relations are particularly significant in the quarter of and quarter immediately after the recommendation change. These empirical relations suggest that
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Quantifying the fouling resistance of Accident-Tolerant Fuel (ATF) cladding coatings with force spectroscopy
… reactors into temporary shutdown or production downgrades, costing millions of dollars US per reactor. If the CRUD growth factors could be fully understood, they could be controlled, and the CRUD problem could be eliminated altogether. Atomic force microscopy can be used to measure the force, or …
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Ownership, rights and access to minerals in Namibia: A contemporary legal perspective
… and capacity but also fear of economic downgrades, corruption and absence of a supporting legal framework. As a way of addressing this problem, some countries such as Zimbabwe has learned from South Africa to implement measures to control business fronting, increased their focus on …
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Determinants of sovereign credit ratings in an emerging economy: A case of South Africa
… generally been stable to negative, with some downgrades in 2013 and 2015. For the past decade, South Africa has moved from BBB+ to BBB- as at end of 2016. Drawing on the literature, the analysis shows a formalised relationship between certain economic variables and the sovereign credit …
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Essays on Sell-Side Analysts
… discovery are 6.3% for upgrades and -10.6% for downgrades. The CARs are higher for reports containing discovery relative to those containing interpretation or timing. We find that economic determinants predict whether a report will contain discovery. Discovery from management sources is more …
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Three Essays on The Cost of Debt Capital
… are affected equally by bond credit rating downgrades in their industry. Smaller, more opaque firms operating in competitive markets are found to be more sensitive to rival's credit adjustments. </p> <p>Chapter 3 examines the intra-industry information transfer effect of bond rating …
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Design Change Propagation in Complex Systems: Industry Processes and Perceptions
… cost increases, time delays, and quality downgrades. This study presents the findings stemming from interviews with 32 experienced technical professionals, all of whom are accustomed to working on design in complex systems. There was no standardized formal approach to these problems that …
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Modelling, forecasting and riding credit risk in the Sterling Eurobond market
… as well as the yields themselves. We find that downgrades are viewed as informational events, but upgrades are not. An asymmetric pattern is also observed in the dynamics of volatility. Third, we build a predictive structural model for the downgrade probability using a two-step estimation …
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The extent and relevance of instrumentalism, constructivism and critical realism in high school physical science textbooks : a critical study
… pragmatic purpose of 'saving the appearances' downgrades the role of theory in science. Realists, on the other hand, take the implications of theories seriously. This study investigates the attributes of both instrumentalism and realism, taking theory as its point of departure. It is pointed …
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Effects of vitamin D on pro-inflammatory cytokines associated with Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
… reduces the translocation of NF-кB and thereby downgrades its activity. Since NF-кB is the main transcription factor which plays a central role in inflammation and synthesis of pro-inflammatory cytokines; down-regulation of its activity offers an effective therapeutic method for alleviating …
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The Information Content of Standard & Poor's Common Stock Ranking Changes
… date, for both the All Upgrades and the All Downgrades portfolios. However, the adjustment process differs by type of ranking change. The results from a Wall Street Journal Index search indicate that Standard & Poor's changes rankings following earnings announcements. While no relation is …
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Essays on securitization and the resolution of financial distress by Manuel Adelino.
… Yield spreads at issuance predict both future downgrades and defaults even after the information contained in ratings is taken into account. This holds for all rating classes except triple-A. Yield spreads of the highest rated securities have no predictive power for future performance. This …
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